personal story about life with chronic pain and owner of a retail website selling a few herbal remedies to help chronic pain sufferers, providing information for folks to help themselfs and other gifts to lighten the load.

I hug trees. Yep, always have, always will. But I was dumbfounded when I discovered that the tree I love the absolute most, or I should say the species of tree or genus or?, is also one of the most allergic things to me! Yep, I am allergic to my love. Now how screwy is that? I have planted more of these than any other, hundreds even. And I have surrounded my house with them and they drop their lovely pollen laden fruits all over my roof and my deck, my yard and my air. hmmmmm

Now that’s living! I will still love my lovely cedars no matter how many stuffed up, snotty, sneeze filled days lie ahead. And this is one distraction from depression I can surely live with!